Create Any Animal in Blender 3 - Detailed Beginner Tutorial

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In this Video I show you how you can make any animal in blender following the techniques shown creating this Halloween style cat.
Chapters:
0:00 start
0:50 - Inserting background images
5:20 - Modelling
12:50 - Mirror
16:34 - Legs
22:05 - rounding out the shape
25:02 - smoothing the shape
28:30 - eyes and ears
35:03 - subdivision surface modifier
39:25 - add the armature
44:46 - symmetrise the armature
47:24 - parenting bones
50:55 - parenting the bones to the cat
53:20 - posing
55:00 - Texturing

The background images can be downloaded from here:

[dettimp]

I love the fact that you always explain why you do things, so instead of just copying without understanding what I'm doing, I can actually learn while following.

[boboscurse]

I love that you continue to reinforce the shortcut commands "G to grab, " Tab for Edit Mode. It really helps! I'm loving your tutorials.

[mnmlst]

Oh Grant, you are such an amazing teacher. I learned Blender from you and the way you explain makes learning so easy and smooth. Totally going to do this one tomorrow.

[StarlightLandscapingSL]

Best teacher for blender hands down. He makes everything seem so simple and easy to understand. I’ve gone through a couple paid tutorials and as someone with little experience he made intermediate courses feel somewhat simple to complete.

[andabien]

Wow, what a revelation! You can hide vertices. I didn't know that: hadn't even thought about it.

[Mightydoggo]

This guy is just the multitool of Blender, he can do it all!
Very much appreciate the content you give us for free. You are doing, what the school system isn´t capable of sadly. (atleast where I live)

[arkhanyc]

Great tutorial ! I loved everything about it : the pauses between sections so that we can watch the full section before trying to do the same as you, the trial and error examples, etc. You even showed different tools to achieve the same goals. Thanks to all your clear explanations, it's literaly not possible to not get a good looking cat at the end of this tut. Thanks !

[TheLovescream]

Hey there I just finall got over myself the other day to start learning some 3d modelling and I gotta say your tutorial series is amazing! You paced the lessons well and I felt like I learned the basic controls and features thatll help me start creating and keep learning. The famous donut tutorial lost me rather quickly and it didnt feel like it really taught me the basics of how to actually use blender, just the specific steps needed to create that specific donut. So Im really glad to have found your videos!

I just finished this tutorial scene and it actually looked quite good even though I tend to be critical. I was challenging, but really fun too!

[graphguy]

I always love watching your videos. Your teaching style, temperament, thoroughness, and creativity is one of the best. 👌

[RM-ywxe]

You are one of the top tutors here on YT. I am using blender now for my story illustrations for my own channel and your videos are the only ones I follow.

[kinghgh]

great tutorial as always! however, one slight comment on the control bone. If it is kept inside the mesh, the automatic weights will assign some vertices to that bone, and it may cause some stretches while posing, to fix it either uncheck the deform option under bone properties on the control bone or keep the control bone outside the mesh. there is always the option to edit your mesh and remove weight paint data on the control bone. Cheers!

[rsin]

10:48 : If you struggle with grid fill (didnt work for me), just copy exactly how he model the faces (8 vertices / 8 edges).
Again, youre a bless, Monsieur Abbitt

[catismine]

Oh, maxs is so inconvenient, I was just learning blender and found your video.
Your videos explain how to use many techniques and why and how to use various tools and methods. This gives me a clearer picture of what you're doing instead of blindly guessing what you're doing and how, I'm just a novice after all.
Next I have to follow you, because you still have a lot of videos that I haven't watched yet, and I have to learn first :)

[VerzatileDev]

This is one of the first clearest tutorials I have seen on YouTube.

[tenebra]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I struggle a lot with getting the shape right usually and this helped so much, with the precise and detailed steps, so I don't have to constantly second guess myself whether I missed a click.

[kyleworley]

One day I will be able to afford the full courses, for now, thank you for all the lessons over the years Grant! You're a legend!

[rsin]

I just finished the Complete Beginner course, oh my god I learned so much. The GG stuff Edge slide and tons of other stuff. I feel comfortable with modeling now, I just need to hone my skills ! Thanks Master Abbitt (see you soon on the Shader nodes playlist lol)

[Itsjustjord]

I've been practicing blender for years and it's only NOW I learn about edge sliding... 🤦‍♂ Thanks Grant

[pradyutmukherjee]

You are the best teacher out there. Your explanations are so effortless and makes it so much more interesting to learn such an overwhelming software like blender. I am already a subscriber to your paid course but would love to see this particular cat animated, So if you can make a video on that it would be so helpful and also very interesting.

[sportsdiary]

I look forward to your next videos about the route for beginners, thank you very much